Rockchip How-tos

With their RK3066 and RK3188 processor, Rockchip has been a clear winner in 2013 at least when it comes with HDMI TV stick, and possibly to a lesser extend with Android STBs. It has not been has popular as AllWinner SoC with development board, with only Radxa board available, due to the company policy with regards to open source software. Yet some documentation, tools and source code have either been leaked, or developed by the developers’ community. I’ll provide links to tutorials and how-tos for RK3066 and RK3188 in this page.

Rockchip Android How-tos

This section only refers to Windows based tools provided by Rockchip or third parties.

Both rooting and upgrading firmware require Rockchip USB driver, and in the past people often had issues getting the right ones for their version of Windows, so the company released a USB driver installer tool to simplify the process.

Rockchip Linux How-tos

If you’re going to hack the kernel, you’ll need to get access to the serial console if you want to go anywhere. I’ve shown how to hack the board for MK808 (RK3066 mini PC) and MK908 (RK3188 mini PC).

The instructions for getting root access and upgrading firmware in the section above, all use Windows tools, but there are now the instructions in Linux for rooting and firmware upgrade too, although with some limitations.

One thing I has not been able to track for quite some time if there’s a single RK3188 based HDMI stick with a built-in 3G module. I understand that most HDMI dongles and STBs support 3G via USB but I dont like the idea of having the stick-in-stick setup for obviuos reasons